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MICHAEL FINNISSY at 70 the PIANO MUSIC (9) IAN PACE – Piano Recital at Deptford Town Hall, Goldsmith’S College, London City Research Online City, University of London Institutional Repository Citation: Pace, I. (2016). Michael Finnissy at 70: The piano music (9). This is the other version of the paper. This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/17520/ Link to published version: Copyright: City Research Online aims to make research outputs of City, University of London available to a wider audience. Copyright and Moral Rights remain with the author(s) and/or copyright holders. URLs from City Research Online may be freely distributed and linked to. Reuse: Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. City Research Online: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/ [email protected] MICHAEL FINNISSY AT 70 THE PIANO MUSIC (9) IAN PACE – Piano Recital at Deptford Town Hall, Goldsmith’s College, London Thursday December 1st, 2016, 6:00 pm The event will begin with a discussion between Michael Finnissy and Ian Pace on the Verdi Transcriptions. MICHAEL FINNISSY Verdi Transcriptions Books 1-4 (1972-2005) 6:15 pm Books 1 and 2: Book 1 I. Aria: ‘Sciagurata! a questo lido ricercai l’amante infido!’, Oberto (Act 2) II. Trio: ‘Bella speranza in vero’, Un giorno di regno (Act 1) III. Chorus: ‘Il maledetto non ha fratelli’, Nabucco (Part 2) IV. Chorus: ‘Fra tante sciagure…’, I Lombardi (Act 3) V. Septet with Chorus: ‘Vedi come il buon vegliardo…’, Ernani (Part 1) VI. Choral Barcarolle: ‘Tace il vento, è queta l’onda’, I Due Foscari (Act 3) VII. Aria: ‘So che per via di triboli’, Giovanna d’Arco (Act 1) VIII. Duet: ‘Il pianto…l’angoscia…di lean mi priva’, Alzira (Act 2) IX. Aria: ‘Mentre gonfiarsi l’Anima’, Attila (Act 1) Book 2 X. Duetto: ‘Vanitosi! Che abietti e dormenti’, Attila (Prologo) XI. Coro: ‘Patria oppressa! Il dolce nome…’, Macbeth (Act 4, 1847 version) XII. Duetto: ‘Qual mare, qual terra….’, I masnadieri (Parte Terza) XIII. Récit et Duo: ‘Non, ce bruit, ce n’est rien…’, Jérusalem (Act 1) XIV. Romanza: ‘Non so le tetre immagini’, Il Corsaro (Act 1) XV. Inno di Vittoria: ‘Dall’Alpi a Caridi echeggi vittoria!’, La Battaglia di Legnano (Act 4) XVI. Scena e Quartetto: ‘Rea fucina d’empie frodi…’, Luisa Miller (Act 2) XVII. Duetto: ‘Opposto é il calle che in avvenire’, Stiffelio (Act 3) XVIII Scena e Coro: ‘Vendetta del pazzo! Contr’esso un rancore’, Rigoletto (Act 1) INTERVAL (10 minutes) 7:20 pm Book 3 XIX. Canzone: ‘La donna è mobile’, Rigoletto (Act 3) XX. Duo: ‘Vivra! Contende il giubilo’, Il trovatore (Act 4, scene 1) XXI. Duetto: ‘È nulla, sai?’, La traviata (Act 3) XXII. Boléro: ‘Merci, jeunes amies, d’un souvenir si doux!’, Les vêpres siciliennes (Act 5, scene 2) XXIII. Scena: ‘Tradimento!’, Simon Boccanegra (Finale dell’Atto Primo, 1857 version) XXIV. Coro, Burrasca e Finale: ‘Allora che gl’anni’, Aroldo (Act 4) XXV. Stretta: ‘Ogni cura si doni al diletto’, Un ballo di maschera (Act 1) XXVI. Romanza: ‘Me pellegrina ed orfano’, La forza del destino (Act 1) XXVII. Aria: (a) ‘Trionfai! Securi alfino’ (1847), (b) ‘La luce langue’ (1864-5), Macbeth (Act 2) (2 minute pause) Book 4 XXVIII. Chorus: ‘S’allontanarono! N’accozzeremo’, Macbeth (Act 1) XXIX. (a) Duo: ‘Restez! Auprès de ma personne’ (Acte II, Tableau II); (b) Duo: ‘J’ai tout compris’ (Acte IV, Tableau I), Don Carlos (1866-7) XXX. Romanza: ‘O cieli azzuri…’, Aida (Act 3) XXXI String Quartet: (a) III. Prestissimo, (b) IV. Scherzo fuga XXXII Aria: ‘Cielo, pietoso, rendila’, Simon Boccanegra (Act 2) XXXIII. Aria: ‘Tu che la vanità conoscesti’, Don Carlo (Act 5) XXXIV. (a) Ballet No. 3: ‘Chanson Grecque’ (Cancone Greca)’; (b) Scena: ‘Una gran nube turba’, Otello (Act 3, Finale) XXXV. ‘Brava! Quelle corna saranno la mio gioia!’, Falstaff (Act 3, Part 1) XXXVI. I. ‘Requiem Aeternam’, Messa da Requiem Verdi Transcriptions – Programme Note by Michael Finnissy Transcribing sound into a written form (notation) involves making significant choices. The choices can colour the ongoing exploration of that sound as ‘composition’. All the written symbols chosen are potential material, though - in practice - some are prioritised, others overlooked. The processing of the material is, basically, repetition plus varying degrees of alteration (variation). These ‘low level’ processes accumulate into ever longer structures, also ‘composition’. Other considerations, more or less aesthetic - perhaps also political in a broad sense, influence the progress of this accumulation. Some of these considerations (a lot of them learned and not challenged) are liberating others are confining, either can be useful. The eventual totality, concept and design, bear traces of a ‘journey’ (thought to page) - and will, itself, be experienced (by listening) as a sort of journey. All of this is relatively (less or more) free from intruding cultural influences and prejudices, limitations of self, knowledge and technique. In transcribing Verdi it might seem as if half, or more, of the work had already been done - however, once it is found, or chosen, as ‘material’ the work (composition) becomes the same. None of these pieces assume the original dramatic (Verdian) context, nor is their sound world (voices and orchestra) overtly imitated by the piano. The rhetoric, musical logic and idiom, of nineteenth century opera occasionally surfaces - in a haze of nostalgia, corrupted, even satirised. The music is perhaps ‘theatrical’ in a general sense. The main topics addressed by the composition are: transforming the found object; sampling as continuity-script; faking - since ‘pastiche’ might already be present. A selective history of these topics - Marcel Duchamp, Readymades aided 1913-, initially by adding small dots to a pre-existing found print; the assemblage. The re-configured, alienated ‘everyday’ object becomes a totem. Signing your name - R.Mutt 1917. Duchamp photographed ’en travesti’ as Rrose Selavy in 1921 [MF as GV 1972-2005]. Duchamp as re-viewed (parodied?) by Julian Schnabel. Helmut Lachenmann, Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied, 1980, trace elements of a loved/despised culture. What’s on T.V.? What used to be on the radio? What’s out there? Verdi - and who else? “F for Fake” a film by Orson Welles. Picasso, 347 Gravures - 16.3.68 to 5.10.68, a majority of them ‘derived from’ - fantasised out of and away from - Velasquez’ Las Meninas, and forming an erotic circus where you watch the artist watching his model. Andy Warhol borrowing da Vinci’s Last Supper, or Roy Lichtenstein appropriating the nineteenth century ‘classics’. I began writing this piece in 1972, whilst still teaching and accompanying at the London School of Contemporary Dance. I was attempting to more painstakingly, more obviously, isolate and explore an idea which dominates most of my music. This idea being the mixing, or synthesis, of different (perhaps even opposing) types of music - different modalities (tonal, atonal, pentatonic, microtonal) and different ‘generic’ or ‘historical’ styles. This is not a particularly original idea. Bach was doing much the same in describing his Suites as English or French (his ‘own’ manner being German). Debussy mixes whole-tone, pentatonic and tonal elements in the same piece. A large amount of ‘domestic’ chamber-music re-creates operatic and orchestral rhetoric and repertoire, either by appropriation or imitation. I also wanted to experiment with transcription - and chose what was, by convention, the most obvious material: nineteenth-century opera. I had already tried this once before with Donizetti, in an abortive Donaueschingen commission from Heinrich Strobel (Re-Organised Elements of Opera). This wasn’t an original idea either - Busoni opens his Die Brautwahl by quoting Rossini. Pousseur (Votre Faust), Berio (Sinfonia) and Bernd-Alois Zimmermann had - more recently - written music in which ‘citations’ and ‘memories’ played a large part. The first attempt was to START with pastiche Verdi and gradually become me. More or less the opposite of what finally happened - which was to CONCLUDE with him having begun with me. However the opening seven parodies of nineteenth-century operatic transcriptions that I wrote were too similar, they did not ‘launch’ what was obviously a rather grandiose conception very effectively. I abandoned these and put the piece on one side, working on it only fitfully. In 1977 I wrote ‘English Country-Tunes’, arguably with much the same initial scenario, but with English folk music as material rather than Verdi. I was also working on a set of piano studies at this time, trying always to broaden the scope (perhaps ‘drama’ and typology) of my work. I was also spending a lot of time travelling around Europe for concerts, and playing for the Royal Opera ballet (classes and rehearsals). This latter proximity to 19th century opera worked against, rather than for, my Verdi project - and it was only after I’d spent two extended periods in Australia, and when I started University teaching that I’d created sufficient distance and objectivity to proceed with it. In some ways the (Verdi) material was no longer the point. The point was the different sorts of thing one could do to transform it. These ‘transformations’ are quite rudimentary. Firstly one can take the constituent notes of a Verdi line, adding two or three notes together (to make dyads and triads), and find oneself with very different compositional matter. One can isolate a single ‘figure’ from somewhere in the accompaniment, and bring it forward as a structural determinant. One can variously fragment and blow apart Verdi’s texture by octave- and other sorts of transposition, shifting registers around in ways quite different to the original.
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